Martha Jefferson (Randolph) to St. John de Crèvecoeur

Miss Jefferson’s compliments to Mr De Crevecoeur, she cannot receive the valuable present he has been so kind as to send her. she
considers the offer of it as a sufficient proof of his friendly disposition and begs
leave in returning it to tender to him her esteem and her thanks

RC (photostat in ViU); in the hand of William Short, Thomas Jefferson’s private secretary in Paris from 1785 to 1789; addressed by Thomas Jefferson: “Mr St Jean de Crèvecœur!”; with later note in an unidentified hand: “Miss Jefferson’s answer to a gentleman (an admirer) who sent her a present.”